Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 
> > > Reading the subject, "creepy ... dates", that is exactly how I feel
> > > about the described current date behavior --- "creepy".
> > > 
> > > Because I have only seen one person defend our current behavior, and
> > > many object, I am going to add to TODO:
> > > 
> > > 	* Allow current datestyle to restrict dates;  prevent month/day swapping
> > >           from making invalid dates valid?
> > > 	* Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
> > 
> > I added a question mark to the first item so we can consider it later. 
> > Most agreed on the second item, but a few thought the first one might be
> > OK as is.
> 
> What are ISO dates?  Are those the ones like 22 Feb 2003?  Just wondering.

YYYY-MM-DD

> The one thing that should absolutely be turned off is day/month swapping 
> on dates of the form: 2003-02-22.

Right.

> I've seen little actual defense of the current behaviour, I'd say more 
> like questioning whether or not we should change directions in mid stream 
> than defense.

True.  I do think we will have to make the change some day, and report
it in the release notes.

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